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From blackout, the dance moves to a striking processional--two men (John Noran, Kenneth Train) carrying a stiff Eugenie Doyle, her arms stretched beyond her head, fingers spread. They tilt her up and she slides down the backs of the two men, down the closely following Thaddeus Bartter, to the floor where she lands gracefully: the earth has absorbed all shock and accepted her into its fallow ground...
...abruptly, glancing at each other across the floor. Whimsically, the two dancers tilt their arms in opposition, teetering from side to side in almost airplane-like glides as they continue down what seems a make-believe runway directed into the audience. Doyle is fluent and controlled. Bridgman a little stiff-legged at times, but they form a dynamic team--a strong portrait...
...paychecks at all; instead, it deposits salaries directly into each employee's bank account. And it makes only four such deposits a year. Workers get 15% of their salary each Feb. 6, May 6, Aug. 6 and Nov. 6 (another 10% is withheld each quarter to pay stiff Danish taxes...
Particularly impressive was the strong performance by Smith, who, in the words of one his teammates, "was hitting everything stiff...
Blakinger faced fairly stiff competition at 114 last weekend, and he is a strong candidate in the national 105 class. Starr faced a slightly less competitive field at 198, and he will probably pass up the national trials because of scheduled knee surgery later this spring...